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Domestic abuse in any shape or form
Has over the past few years become the norm
It should not be tolerated By anyone but hated
Domestic abuse
Should not be an excuse
It is used as a method of control of a partner
Be careful it is not happening to your sons or your daughters
Domestic violence is destructive
It destroys the home and it is disruptive
It leaves a home without both parent
Please know the signs ladies and gents
Abuse can be physical or psychological
It can be emotional, verbal or mental
It crushes your self esteem and makes you feel you have no worth
It makes you feel like you are the scum of the earth
My heart aches for the fatherless and motherless children
Left behind and what it does to their young mind
To witness the abuse or death of a mother
By the hand of a father
Ladies or gents, if you leaving the abusive relationship
Don’t say a word, zip the lip
Leave like a “thief in the night”
It might just save your life
Women and men run for your life
Domestic violence may cost your life
Jackie Paris and Trinity did this song
“Run for your life, he’s behind you with a knife, run, run, run!”
Run as far and as fast as you can
Get help, your life is not worth it “man!”
Sharon Johnson-Wright is a Self-Published Author of Vantage Point: An Anthology of Poems; written in Patois and English and available on Amazon. She credits her influencers as cultural icon Miss Lou and poet Joan Andrea Hutchinson. Sharon lives by these words “Wat a fi yuh, kyaan bi unfi yuh” and “whatsoever a man sows that shall he also reap.” She is a woman of God and mother to two handsome boys.
Written in relation to Domestic Abuse and the families affected
Sharon Johnson-Wright © 2019
